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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 19, 2016
Applicant:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Mitsushi Abe, Tokyo, JP;

Kenji Sakakibara, Tokyo, JP;

Takuya Fujikawa, Tokyo, JP;

Hikaru Hanada, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/3875 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01); G01R 33/24 (2006.01); G01R 33/3873 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/3875 (2013.01); A61B 5/055 (2013.01); G01R 33/243 (2013.01); G01R 33/3873 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention provides a shimming method in which an electric current surface that is virtually placed so as to surround a measurement position is assumed from a magnetic field measurement value, in which an electric current distribution that reproduces a measurement magnetic field is reproduced through an electric current potential, and in which the reproduced magnetic field distribution is used. A magnetic moment or an electric current distribution that reproduces a magnetic field distribution obtained by a magnetic field measurement device is estimated on a predetermined closed surface, and, from the estimated magnetic moment or electric current distribution, a magnetic field distribution of an arbitrary point that exists in the closed surface is estimated. Then, on the basis of the estimated magnetic field distribution, a shim magnetic body distribution that produces a correction magnetic field for correcting the magnetic field distribution at the arbitrary point is output.


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